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2022 California Code
Family Code - FAM
DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT
PART 5 - ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ORDERS
CHAPTER 5 - Civil Penalty for Child Support Delinquency
Section 4722.

Universal Citation:
CA Fam Code § 4722 (2022)
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4722. (a) Any person with a court order for child support, the payments on which are more than 30 days in arrears, may file and then serve a notice of delinquency, as described in this chapter.

(b) Except as provided in Section 4726, and subject to Section 4727, any amount of child support specified in a notice of delinquency that remains unpaid for more than 30 days after the notice of delinquency has been filed and served shall incur a penalty of 6 percent of the delinquent payment for each month that it remains unpaid, up to a maximum of 72 percent of the unpaid balance due.

(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.)

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